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The Food Section - Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community (Hardcover)
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The Food Section - Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community (Hardcover)
Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy
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Food blogs are everywhere today but for generations, information
and opinions about food were found in the food sections of
newspapers in communities large and small. Until the early 1970s,
these sections were housed in the women's pages of newspapers-where
women could hold an authoritative voice. The food editors-often a
mix of trained journalist and home economist-reported on everything
from nutrition news to features on the new chef in town. They wrote
recipes and solicited ideas from readers. The sections reflected
the trends of the time and the cooks of the community. The editors
were local celebrities, judging cooking contests and getting calls
at home about how to prepare a Thanksgiving turkey. They were
consumer advocates and reporters for food safety and nutrition.
They helped make James Beard and Julia Child household names as the
editors wrote about their television appearances and reviewed their
cookbooks. These food editors laid the foundation for the food
community that Nora Ephron described in her classic 1968 essay,
"The Food Establishment," and eventually led to the food
communities of today. Included in the chapters are profiles of such
food editors as Jane Nickerson, Jeanne Voltz, and Ruth Ellen
Church, who were unheralded pioneers in the field, as well as
Cecily Brownstone, Poppy Cannon, and Clementine Paddleford, who are
well known today; an analysis of their work demonstrates changes in
the country's culinary history. The book concludes with a look at
how the women's pages folded at the same time that home economics
saw its field transformed and with thoughts about the foundation
that these women laid for the food journalism of today.
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